HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Waynesboro shuts out James Buchanan

The Waynesboro Maidens responded to back-to-back losses with a 3-0 victory against James Buchanan Tuesday in a Mid-Penn Colonial Division matchup.

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Posted Sep. 18, 2013 at 12:00 PM

Posted Sep. 18, 2013 at 12:00 PM

GIRLS’ SOCCER

Waynesboro shuts

out James Buchanan

MERCERSBURG — The Waynesboro Maidens responded to back-to-back losses with a 3-0 victory against James Buchanan Tuesday in a Mid-Penn Colonial Division matchup.

Waynesboro (4-3, 4-1) leads the division with one game left in the first half of the league schedule. The lone loss came against Greencastle-Antrim. The Maidens play at Shippensburg on Thursday.

“The past few games our challenge has been to find the best combination of players to maximize our team’s play,” said Waynesboro coach Brian Fisher, whose squad lost to Cedar Cliff on Monday and Northern on Saturday. “We made several position changes.

“We controlled play in the first half but seemed to lose possession in the final third of the field. We knew we had to maintain possession in JB’s end to find better scoring opportunities.”

Fisher credited his team with a stronger second half, and it showed as Waynesboro scored all three goals in the final 40 minutes.

Katie Clawson started the scoring with an assist from Jade Swope at 27:15. Less than five minutes later, Swope tallied with Mallory Patterson recording the first of her two assists to make it 2-0. Kennedy Chandler then scored with 1:13 left in the game.

“Mallory Patterson and Liv Bailey switched the point of attack well,” Fisher said. “We were much more patient in the attacking 1/3 of the field as well.

“Overall, I was especially pleased with the play of Chandler and Clawson, who effectively played different positions. Our goalkeeper (Taylor Welty) and defense (Cat Weber, Monica Beck, Megan Shockey and Chandler) worked well together. Jade Swope and Juli Smith worked some nice combinations. Emily Chilcutt provided some quality minutes.”

Waynesboro outshot James Buchanan 14-8 and had a 5-0 advantage in corner kicks. Welty made eight saves. Kennedy Guerin had 11 saves for the Rockets.

“Our challenge going forward is going to be to play a full 80 minutes of soccer consistently,” Fisher said. “We have to start stronger and take advantage of early opportunities. Overall, it was an excellent team win and we will take it, but we still have a way to go to meet our goals.”

Waynesboro won the junior varsity game, 2-1.

GIRLS’ SOCCER

Blue Devils stay hot against Bulldogs

NEWVILLE — After dropping the first two games of the season, Greencastle-Antrim won its fifth straight Tuesday evening, defeating Big Spring 3-0 in Mid-Penn Colonial Division action.

All three Blue Devil goals came in the second half, with Paige Johnson, Tabi Rudy and Ally Rudy each finding the back of the net for G-A (5-2, 3-1 MPC-Colonial).

Page 2 of 3 - The Blue Devils held Big Spring to only one shot, while putting 34 on goal throughout 80 minutes of regulation.

“We pressed really hard on defense tonight,” G-A head coach Greg Cole said. “Our back four (Alyssa Denkovich, Hannah Crist, Meghan Hirneisen and Alana Ebbitt) controlled play into our attacking third. We are realizing that our backs are an essential part of a competitive, productive, offensive attack.”

Ally and Tabi Rudy were also credited with assists in the win.

The Blue Devils also won Tuesday’s junior varsity contest, 6-0.

Johnson netted a hat trick to go along with goals from Brianna Roland, Madison Uccellinni and Mady Rorher.

G-A wraps up its week by traveling to Boiling Springs Thursday before hosting Shippensburg on Saturday.

GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL

CVCS loses to

Grace Academy

Cumberland Valley Christian School lost to Grace Academy in three sets Tuesday, 25-16, 25-21 and 25-14 in a Mason-Dixon Christian Conference match.

For CVCS, Laiton Suders had five kills and seven digs along with nine service points, including six aces. Karli Fogal had 16 set assists.

G-A took the top four spots in the girls’ event, led by Madison Hurley’s winning time of 21:52. The Blue Devil trio of Lauren Hirneisen, Shelby Stouffer and Caroline Schemel all finished within one second of each other, accounting for second through fourth overall.

Caitlyn Hetrick placed seventh to round out G-A’s top-five scores.

Despite Big Spring taking the top-two places in the boys’ race, the collective efforts of Ben Hockman (3rd), Billy Schemel (4th), Marc Pittman (5th) and Andrew Martin (6th) gave the Blue Devils’ a two-point edge in the final total.

Daniel Salazar completed G-A’s scoring in eighth.

The Blue Devils return to competition on Saturday at the Big Spring Invitational.

Fairfield competes

in quad meet

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Knights boys’ team lost a quad meet against South Western (17-45), Kennard-Dale (18-43), Northeastern (16-46) and Biglerville (17-40) on Tuesday.

Biglerville’s Brady Wilt was the overall winner with a course-record time of 17 minutes, 7 seconds. He smashed the record of 17:31 set by Littlestown’s Xavier Savageau in 2012.